3.3.5. Adding Native Tools

Often, you need to build additional tools that run on the build host system as opposed to the target. You should indicate this using one of the following methods when you run devtool add:

Note

If you need to add a tool that is shipped as part of a source tree that builds code for the target, you can typically accomplish this by building the native and target parts separately rather than within the same compilation process. Realize though that with the "‐‐also-native" option, you can add the tool using just one recipe file.